Heard on "Law & Order: CI"

[Beverly Flanigan]

And then there was the WWI song, "Pack up your troubles in your old kit
bag"--British authorship?  But why "kit and biling"--did "kit" come from
"kitchen," with the same connotation as "the whole kitchen sink"?  Or, in
this case, the kitchen stove?  Just guessing!

At 12:04 PM 10/26/2006, you wrote:
>The OED's instances of "the whole kit" (s.v. kit n1.3; from 1785-1861) are
>mostly British (there's also "all the kit" from 1788).  However,
>Bartlett's appendix to the 1848 Dictionary of Americanisms said it's "an
>expression common in various parts of the country" (p. 403).
>
>Besides "the whole kit" per se, various dictionaries (OED, DA, DAE) give
>"whole kit and biling [boiling]" (1859-1941); "whole kit and boodle"
>(a1861-1946); "whole kit and caboodle" (1888-1969); "whole kit and tuck"
>(1871); "whole kit and cargo" (a1852); "whole boodle" (1833-1858); "whole
>caboodle" (a1848-1923).
>
>--Charlie
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>---- Original message ----
> >Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:20:54 -0700
> >From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
> >Subject: Re: Heard on "Law & Order: CI"
> >To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> >
> >"The whole kit" must be the latest.  I heard it the other day on a
> different show.
> >
> >  I guess there ain't no time to say "caboodle."
> >
> >  JL
> >
> >Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> >"He liked to dress in women's clothes - panties, bra - the whole _kit_."
> >
> >The whole _kit_?!
> >
> >Perhaps the speaker was a Brit doing a dashed good job of faking an
> >Amurk'n accent. But don't actors have to follow a script?
> >
> >-Wilson
>
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